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MILLET ARMAGNAC VINTAGE 1980
- Ageing 1980 vintage, single-harvest eau-de-vie, aged in oak casks at the estate
- Cask French oak casks, aged in the cellars of Château de Millet until bottling
- Grape varieties Baco and Ugni Blanc, Bas-Armagnac grape varieties grown on the estate's golden sands in Eauze
In March 1980, Marguerite Yourcenar became the first woman elected to the Académie française. A few months later, the Dèche family was harvesting their Baco and Ugni Blanc vines on the golden sands of Eauze. This 1980 eau-de-vie aged alone in cask, without blending, until bottling, and the date on the label attests to its age. At 42% vol., the 70 cl bottle is presented in a wooden gift box, ready to give.
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Château de Millet
- Location Eauze, Gers
- Appellation Bas-Armagnac
- Grape varieties Baco (the preferred variety for distillation), together with Colombard, Ugni Blanc, Gros Manseng, Chardonnay, Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet for the estate's other productions
- Distillation A continuously operating armagnacais still, used for the distillation of selected Baco wines, carried out during the first fortnight of December
Set on the sandy-clay hills to the north-west of Eauze, in the heart of Bas-Armagnac, Château de Millet has been tended by the Dèche family for five generations. Across its eighty hectares of the celebrated sables fauves, the estate favours the Baco grape variety, prized for the roundness and softness it expresses on this terro…
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